Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Little People of the Mist., sentence 50
Here near the Stony Bay road saddle, is the legend-haunted O-te-Patatu, the old-time ridge of the fairies and the _titi_.
Who acts: haunted O te · What happens: be, haunt · To what, where: Bay road saddle
This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Little People of the Mist.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (haunted O te), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 saddle | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 saddle | det |
| 4 | Stony | Stony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Bay | compound |
| 5 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 saddle | compound |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saddle | compound |
| 7 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saddle | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 te | det |
| 11 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 haunted | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 legend | punct |
| 13 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 te | amod |
| 14 | O | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 te | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 O | punct |
| 16 | te | te | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Patatu | punct |
| 18 | Patatu | Patatu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 te | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ridge | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ridge | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 time | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 old | punct |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ridge | compound |
| 24 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Patatu | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 fairies | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fairies | det |
| 27 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ridge | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 titi | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 titi | det |
| 30 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 titi | amod |
| 31 | titi | titi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fairies | conj |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 Patatu | punct |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the haunted O te | the Bay road saddle | here property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | haunt | participle | legend compound | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Project Gutenberg book 73766 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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